Arbonne, Never go to Friends and Family Again!

[beverlyamb1]

Working for Arbonne is just like any other job out there. What you put in is what you get out of it. The bonus to all net work marketing companies is if I work 40 hours a week and the person under me works 40 hours a week it = 80 hours for me.

You are far from being limited to family and friends. I have done two parties for friends and none for family the rest are for people I have never meet and I would like to keep it that way so my family doesn`t feel pressured.

[shananagan14]

If these products are so great, why aren't they available through retail stores ? Rather than wait for the consultants to "hopefully" sell stuff, why not load up the retailers with product.......hell, even give them 60 days to pay, but this MLM stuff is crazy. I know one of the success stories in Ontario, driving her white Benz, happens to be the daughter of one of the executives of Arbonne. She forgets to mention that to you when she has you over for dinner and brags about how great her life is

[MLMsellsSnakeOil]

@shananagan14 The reason these products are so expensive is because there are more than 5 commission levels in MLM's. The products are often overpriced and of poor quality. They would never survive on the coercion free shelves of the retail market, which is outside the MLM realm of high pressure, deception and exploiting your friends and family for money. In MLM it is never about the product- that is a front. It's about the faux franchise and the pseudo business opportunity.

[MLMsellsSnakeOil]

Research, w/ worldwide feedback, says that the more a person invests in an MLM the more they lose -- which is true of any scam. Committed MLM participants may invest thousands, and even tens of thousands of dollars, over years before running out of cash or giving up. In legitimate companies, sales reps are not asked to buy inventory or monthly purchases. But in MLM, incentivized purchases are merely disguised or laundered investments in a product-based pyramid scheme.

[KirstenFenton]

@MLMsellsSnakeOil Have you ever heard of being able to start a business without some sort of investment? If so, sign me up. Please give me an example of a 'legitimate company' that allows me to run my own business from home without purchasing product, with the opportunity to make commissions and overrides. Where I can write off my phone, a couple rooms in my house, my 'gifts', part of my utilities, the product, gas, lease, etc... I want to work for the company you know that is better than that.

[MLMsellsSnakeOil]

@KirstenFenton To profit at a recruiting MLM, one must work long hours and be willing to continue to recruit to replace dropouts. One must also be willing to deceive large numbers of recruits into believing it is a legitimate income opportunity. New recruits seldom profit, but are instead only fattening their upline's commission checks and enriching founders and the "first ones in." They are, in fact, being sold a ticket on a flight that has already left the ground.

[MLMsellsSnakeOil]

@KirstenFenton How is Arbonne a legitimate company when you have? 1. Endless chain recruiting until infinity. 2. Most of the commission per sale going to an upline. 3. promotion is based on sales numbers unattainable without recruitment, rather than appointment- like in other sales settings. 4. You have to pay fees and purchase product to qualify for commission. 5. You have more than 5 commission levels, that serve to enrich those at the top of the Pyramid. How is this not a faux franchise?

[SuperFriendlypeople]

great vid!! - wonderful commentary, just makes good sense.

i don't understand the hostility - the speaker is not bringing down anyone clearly stating "nothing against arbonne" per say - just making a thoughtful observation which is frankly quite true.

If you don't have something nice to say - keep it to yourself - oh brother!

[sbohandley]

MLM is the perfect scam! He you have bunch of no money making consultants, trying to recruit a bunch of other no money making consultants, but nobody talks about how they are actually losing money because it would hinder their ability to recruit those no money making consultants. It's perfect! You know that White Mercedes you are devoting your life to? For what it costs to drive, most McJobs pay that!

[sbohandley]

@KirstenFenton It is not a text book definition of "Pyramid" because real wages are paid. Arbonne as well as most MLM's that fit Dr. John Taylor's 5 criteria of what a product based pyramid scheme. According to him, Arbonne meets all 5 criteria of a Product based Pyramid scheme. You are drinking the MLM kool aid. It's callled the "MLM Dream", but you have to be asleep to believe it!!!

[KirstenFenton]

@sbohandley How are we losing money with Arbonne? Not getting it.

[KirstenFenton]

Haha, first of all... my employers always expect me to get my ass into work regardless of the weather! They never feel sorry for me if there's a snow storm - it's business as usual! I was approached by a girl who was not my 'friend' but I knew her from 4 years ago when we worked in the same office. Arbonne is network marketing - it's not a business based on selling to solely your friends and family. You're negative (or jealous of Arbonne consultants) I'd never want to work with someone like you.

[jillbennett80]

How very unprofessional to run down one company to try and promote your own! With that sort of attitude you won't get very far in life! Sounds like you don't really have any idea how to run a NWM company or to use the internet to its best advantage.

[AmylovesMaddy]

My friend became a RVP for Arbonne. I don't agree with you. I believe you are just rying to promote yourself which is confusing. Sorry - I am not trying to be rude at all.

[BlairXoX]

It was her choice to drive out that far. Also, she can write off her gas bill and refreshments in income taxes!

[funkadelicearthquake]

Looks like the website she is promoting, her website business, is out of business. I bet the Arbonne distributor is still going strong. Hmmm...the old adage still applies, if you have to build yourself up by putting others down, you can't build anything successful aka "God don't like ugly."

[born2priasehim]

WOW, this women is so limited in her thinking! It's sad when people have to put down somthing to build themselves up. She doesn't have the right concept of Arbonnne, know what you're talking about before you open your mouth and make yourself look like a fool!

[wellintelmtc]

Arbonne for me is super success without handling products,payroll, for great travel, empowerment, and fun. It is the best business model I have ever been a business partner with. The product sells itself, I simply find business partners seeking the same rewards from a business. No one looks haggard, tired, jealous, or has anything bad to say.

It is refreshing.

[jacquesno3]

"THEE" most intelligent and thought-out and well-stated Youtube Commentary I've ever seen. You ~ Definitely would have made me pause for concern, prior to joining Arbonne. Am still new, but the wheels are turning...even moreso no after hearing your video...Hmmm....

[sbohandley]

Lets talk about the expenses involved in recruiting to replace the 90% attrition of an upline's Pyramid, sorry I mean downline every year. Tells us how much time is spent doing that, where one could be earning more money in a part time job. Tell us how consultants have to front load products to maintain commission levels and reach quota's. Tell us how Arbonne products are over priced (even with discount) and can be purchased at market value on EBay for much, much less.

[KirstenFenton]

@sbohandley I work at a community centre. Guess what... it's a pyramid scheme!!! Yeah can you believe it? There's one guy at the top called the Executive Director and then there are a couple of Program Directors and below them are quite a few Managers and below them are dozens of admins and clerks. Holy Pyramid!!!!

[sbohandley]

@KirstenFenton It isn’t the shape of the organization that is important, but the endless chain of recruitment of participants as primary customers. Arbonne requires the climbing of a pyramid in order to make enough money to profit to any significant degree. But unlike a corporate pyramid, in MLM and other types of pyramid schemes, virtually all of those at the bottom (the "downline") lose money (some a lot of money), where in a corporation, those at the bottom at least get a minimum wage.

[PetJan8]

I dont think that you understand the Arbonne business, i think you just judged the consultants, as a conultant, everything that you had mentioned, did not apply. i work in the day time, i work outside of my family and friends, so i think you should remove this video because you simply do not understand what you are talking about

[Jewel8]

Perhaps this Arbonne consultant put in a lot of effort to honour her commitment to the party host (who possibly focused on the wrong thing with expensive food and beverage). I agree with ArbonneAlison: Some MLM opportunities are just THAT good, that sharing them with friends and family is EXACTLY what you should do. If you're confident in the opportunity or product, sharing it (not selling it) with people you care about most is easy and beneficial to both them and you.

[ArbonneAlison]

Wow.. As a network marketer.. What you are looking at as a the glass half empty scenario. I absolutely love that I work the way Arbonne works (as I am very much a relationship person). Any product I sell I want to have a relationship with the people I work with. I also never judge another's network marking business. Yours is for you. Mine is for me. But I never recruit others by putting down anothers. You did it in a very wolf in sheep clothing way. let yours stand on your own Merritt .